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Monday is 4th Monday of the month (yes #poets can count)
Which means it is #openmic at Castle Tap on castle hill #RdgUK
Some of the Dreading Poets will be amongst the #openmic performers
#inRdg #spokenword

From time to time I'll post about contemporary poets, poetry and litmags I find resonate with me. Here's one:

Poem: Home
Poet: Toast Wong
Publication: Train: A Poetry Journal

https://trainpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/2022/05/home.html

Read it. Love it.

#poets
#poetry
#litmags
#poems

home

Toast Wong i want a fresh pack of cigs, scratch tickets, a full tank of gas, cheap thrills at the petro-can. i want to dance in the spotligh...

If you want to help your local (to #rdgUK ) #arts @risingsunarts RG1 2ST are having a volunteer hangout today and Friday 27th from 12:00 to 15:00
The Rising Sun relies on volunteers to run the centre, and this in turn helps us to keep Dreading #slam #free for both #poets and audience

The #poets video of the England National #slam competition are available on https://www.youtube.com/@FarragoPoetry
If you wish to compete in 2027 as the Dreading champion our next competition is Sun April 12th 19:30 Rising sun #arts RG1 2ST winner of that , and our othe monthly contests compet in Jan for the championship
Congratulations to England Winner Georgia Griffith

#amwritingpoetry
farrago poetry

The Jinn in the Well by Wasima Khan

In Manchester, the tap water speaks Urdu at 3:17 a.m., but only to the ones who never learned to read their father's hands. It asks about the train. The one from Amritsar. The one no one survived.

West Trestle Review

From time to time I'll post about contemporary poets, poetry and litmags I find resonate with me. Here's one:

Poem: The Doctors
Poet: Liam October O’Brien
Publication: Prolit
https://www.prolitmag.com/issue-seven/obrien

Read it. Love it.

#poets
#poetry
#litmags
#poems

The Doctors by Liam October O'Brien — Prolit

Prolit

From time to time I'll post about contemporary poets, poetry and litmags I find resonate with me. Here's one:

Poem: The Sky Is Still Blue
Poet: Lola Dekhuijzen
Publication: Abridged

https://www.abridged.zone/mark-tamer-lola-dekhuijzen/

Read it. Love it.

#poets
#poetry
#litmags
#poems

Mark Tamer / Lola Dekhuijzen | Abridged Zone

#poets from all kinds of #goth and #weird horizons! Come and help me decipher the #eerie messages left by a #cryptic entity.
🫥 👀 👻
Bête Noire is an experimental #rpg and interactive poem based on #asemic writings and Inspired by the #dark and #lovely narrative games developed by @comemartin @Mila and @Thomas_Munier
#asemicPoem #ghostSigns
https://www.luvan.org/betenoire/
bête noîre

The Park #Poets meet Saturday 14th for #poetry in the park at 11:00 for #poetry and Chat and old fashioned #poetrycircle

Will it be tea or coffee?
Cake or toast?
and which #poem to read, or just listen. at Tutus Ethiopian Table in Palmer Park #Reading #Berkshire
You are welcome to join us.
#RdgUk #writingcommunity